Female stranger about guns, plans SICKO’S EERIE ‘HINTS’ ONLINE
The 18-year-old gunman who shot and killed at least 19 school children and two adults at a Texas elementary school sent cryptic messages to a woman over Instagram just hours before the shooting.
Salvador Ramos allegedly had an Instagram account that included numerous pictures of firearms and ammunition.
In one post, he tagged a woman in an image of two rifles and then messaged her: “Be grateful I tagged you.”
The woman, who shared the purported exchange on her account, claims she did not know the shooter and asked why he was tagging her.
Then on Tuesday morning, the account messaged her, “I’m about to” and then, a few hours later, “I got a little secret.” When the woman questioned what he meant, he said he’d tell her “before 11.”
“The only reason I responded to him was because I was afraid of him,” the woman later wrote.
“He’s a stranger; I know nothing about him. He decided to tag me in his gun post. I’m so sorry for the victims and their families. I really don’t know what to say.”
He never told the girl his secret. His last message at 9:16 a.m. was “Ima air out.”
The account believed to be Ramos’ contained photos of guns and selfies of himself. The account, with the username “salv8dor_”, was removed from the platform after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott released the name of the mass shooter, who was killed by police.
There was only one post on the account before it was removed. The post features three photos — a mirror selfie of Ramos in a sweatshirt, a grainy black-andwhite close-up of his face and a first-person shot of a person holding a firearm magazine in their lap.
The same account shared a photo of two rifles laying side-by-side to its stories. The account tagged another user in the photo.
Another Instagram user told The Daily Dot that he met Ramos on a livestreaming app called Yubo and that the shooter recently told him he purchased a firearm.
“All I know is he would always post guns on his story,” the person said. “He was just telling me about some rifle he bought. But in America I know how normal that is, and I had no idea.”
The website also posted a screenshot of a receipt from Daniel Defense, a Georgia-based company that sells guns online.
The receipt shows that a firearm was purchased for $1,870 plus tax.